{"id":126465,"date":"2024-11-16T09:59:10","date_gmt":"2024-11-16T02:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=126465"},"modified":"2024-11-16T09:59:10","modified_gmt":"2024-11-16T02:59:10","slug":"nasa-tracking-bus-sized-asteroid-making-close-approach-to-earth-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=126465","title":{"rendered":"NASA tracking bus-sized asteroid making close approach to Earth TOMORROW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/nasa\/index.html\" id=\"mol-716900e0-a39b-11ef-a887-b3c6cefe348c\" rel=\"noopener\">NASA<\/a> is keeping a close eye on a bus-sized <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-14060471\/God-chaos-Apophis-asteroid-asteroidquakes-passes-earth.html\" rel=\"noopener\">asteroid that is expected to skim past Earth<\/a>\u00a0Saturday at a distance only slightly father away than the moon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Officials at the space agency&#8217;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and and Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) estimated that the space rock is between 28 and 62 feet wide, and will shoot past our planet at a speed of roughly\u00a029,300 mph.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">It will come within\u00a0273,000 miles of Earth. By comparison, the average distance between our planet and <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-14071883\/Scientists-shocking-moon-origin-theory.html\" rel=\"noopener\">the moon<\/a> is roughly\u00a0238,900 miles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The<a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-13600817\/planet-killing-asteroids-Earth-NASA.html\" rel=\"noopener\"> close encounter<\/a> is expected to take place in the early morning hours, but the asteroid poses no threat to Earth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The space rock, called\u00a02024 VK3, is just one of five asteroids that will fly by our planet this weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Three are as roughly big as commercial airplanes and one is about the size of a house, according to NASA JPL.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The next-closest encounter will be made by the airplane-sized asteroid 2024 VZ2, which will come within\u00a0790,000 miles of our planet.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The others will maintain distances of over a million miles away with house-sized asteroid 2024 UC5 being 2,580,000 miles away at its closest point to Earth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\" style=\"\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\"> <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-9a05fc0b26680301\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2024\/11\/15\/21\/92129459-14088921-NASA_is_keeping_a_close_eye_on_a_bus_sized_asteroid_that_is_expe-a-1_1731707397067.jpg\" height=\"636\" width=\"634\" alt=\"NASA is keeping a close eye on a bus-sized asteroid that is expected to skim past Earth tomorrow morning at a distance only slightly father away than the moon\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/> <\/div>\n<p> <noscript> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-9a05fc0b26680301\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2024\/11\/15\/21\/92129459-14088921-NASA_is_keeping_a_close_eye_on_a_bus_sized_asteroid_that_is_expe-a-1_1731707397067.jpg\" height=\"636\" width=\"634\" alt=\"NASA is keeping a close eye on a bus-sized asteroid that is expected to skim past Earth tomorrow morning at a distance only slightly father away than the moon\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" \/> <\/noscript> <\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">NASA is keeping a close eye on a bus-sized asteroid that is expected to skim past Earth tomorrow morning at a distance only slightly father away than the moon<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">All of these asteroids are considered Near Earth Objects (NEOs) because they are within approximately 30 million miles of our planet.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">NASA has observed, documented and classified around 36,000 objects in the solar system as NEOs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The space agency tracks NEOs primarily to identify asteroids that could potentially collide with Earth, and assess the threat they pose.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">NASA uses a variety of methods to survey nearby space rocks, including both ground-based and space-based telescopes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">One key tool is the Near-Earth Object Surveyor, an infrared space telescope used to discover and characterize Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs).<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">PHAs are asteroids that have a high probability of making a close approach to Earth and are large enough to cause significant damage if they made impact.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Technically, that means any space rock that comes within\u00a00.05 astronomical units &#8211; or roughly\u00a04,647,790 miles &#8211; of Earth&#8217;s orbit, and has an absolute brightness of 22.0 or less.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Absolute brightness is an indirect measurement of an asteroid&#8217;s size. Lower values of magnitude indicate greater brightness, and thus larger objects.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\" style=\"\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\"> <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-6f109ca2d7ead9e1\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2024\/11\/15\/21\/92129671-0-image-a-42_1731707203903.jpg\" height=\"357\" width=\"634\" alt=\"In 2021, NASA's Planetary Defense Office launched the DART mission, which slammed a spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphos and changed the space rock's trajectory (STOCK)\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/> <\/div>\n<p> <noscript> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-6f109ca2d7ead9e1\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2024\/11\/15\/21\/92129671-0-image-a-42_1731707203903.jpg\" height=\"357\" width=\"634\" alt=\"In 2021, NASA's Planetary Defense Office launched the DART mission, which slammed a spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphos and changed the space rock's trajectory (STOCK)\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" \/> <\/noscript> <\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">In 2021, NASA&#8217;s Planetary Defense Office launched the DART mission, which slammed a spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphos and changed the space rock&#8217;s trajectory (STOCK)\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">None of the asteroids that will fly by Earth this weekend are considered PHAs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">But NASA is preparing for the unlikely event that a PHA hurtles towards our planet in the future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The agency&#8217;s Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO) is developing technologies and strategies that could safe Earth from a catastrophic asteroid impact.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Established in 2016, PDCO is tasked with the mission of finding, tracking and better understanding asteroids and comets that could pose an impact hazard to Earth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">In 2021, the office launched the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), which slammed a spacecraft into the asteroid\u00a0Dimorphos and successfully changed the space rock&#8217;s orbital trajectory.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">This mission was a test of the &#8216;kinetic impact&#8217; asteroid deflection strategy, which could one day be used to redirect a PHA on a collision course with Earth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">In October, the European Space Agency launched the second phase of this mission, called Hera.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The Hera spacecraft is currently on its way to Dimorphos to\u00a0perform a detailed post-impact survey of Dimorphos. This will help experts solidify kinetic impact into a\u00a0well-understood and repeatable planetary defense technique.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-14088921\/NASA-asteroid-approach-Earth.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA is keeping a close eye on a bus-sized asteroid that is expected to skim past Earth\u00a0Saturday at a distance only slightly father away than the moon. 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